diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1bb00021e9..4f26a6d3c8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-11-26  Sebastian Dröge  <slomo@circular-chaos.org>
+
+	* tests/check/elements/wavpackenc.c: (GST_START_TEST):
+	Don't check the caps of the output buffer if they're equal some
+	other caps. The caps can change in a backward compatible way
+	and did at this point.
+
 2007-11-24  Julien MOUTTE  <julien@moutte.net>
 
 	* gst/qtdemux/qtdemux.c: (gst_qtdemux_find_segment),
diff --git a/tests/check/elements/wavpackenc.c b/tests/check/elements/wavpackenc.c
index a22d2ac8b6..6a160faa80 100644
--- a/tests/check/elements/wavpackenc.c
+++ b/tests/check/elements/wavpackenc.c
@@ -141,11 +141,6 @@ GST_START_TEST (test_encode_silence)
   fail_unless (memcmp (GST_BUFFER_DATA (outbuffer), "wvpk", 4) == 0,
       "Failed to encode to valid Wavpack frames");
 
-  caps = gst_caps_from_string (WAVPACK_CAPS_STRING);
-  fail_unless (gst_caps_is_equal (caps, GST_BUFFER_CAPS (outbuffer)) == TRUE,
-      "Wrong caps");
-  gst_caps_unref (caps);
-
   /* free all buffers */
   num_buffers = g_list_length (buffers);